An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Friendship buys friendship.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.